What? Actually Vote? Senator Bunning apparently stood up for making his colleagues do their job. Alone of all the Senators, he objected t...

So, What Do We Mean By "Addiction"? The case for treating sex as an addiction: In the last week of treatment, he and his doctors ...

How to Save Money, Federal Government Edition: Dennis the Peasant has a wider complaint with this , but I'd like to focus on just one as...

Interesting: The VA is going to take another look at Gulf War Syndrome .

Politically Correct Mascot: Our friend Major Leggett has a suggestion for a new mascot for Ole Miss, which continues its ongoing efforts to...

I Want One: The Dictionary of Old English sounds like something I would love to be able to use. Healey was quick to point out that the dict...

Foreign Policy Needs More God: So says the Chicago Council on Foreign Policy, at the conclusion of a study . American foreign policy is hand...

Hooah. This guy is my kind of guy. Mr. David Benke stopped a school shooter 'with the faith of his body,' as they used to say: wa...

Poison in the Well: An interesting bit of history that I had never heard before . Doctors were accustomed to alcohol poisoning by then, the ...

"Class War" That is the title of a Reason piece that portrays the public sector pension crisis as a case of public servants versu...

He Was Right! Dad29 says : "He Said 'If You Elect Me the Seas Will Stop Rising,' and he was right "! In the Instapundit ...

Who Built America? Thomas Freidman is talking about nation building in America again, which raises an interesting question. When we do ...

Choices: Three items today. First : Moving to her criticism of the president’s spending, Bachmann pointed to a chart of rising federal defi...

Making It Work: The Economist has a strong piece on the subject of success in American politics . Why, they begin, are things looking so h...

Against Mothers in Combat: Hoover considers the question . Can we make this distinction? I'm putting the question particularly to my f...

He's had all he can stand . A pilot furious with the Internal Revenue Service crashed his small plane into an office building in Austin,...

The Roots of Morality: Many modern philosophers are under the impression that humanity sort-of invents morality. This is not Protagoras...

Books Are Good: Some books are better than others , but what really matters is what you do with the books you read. If these books are to h...

Comments "Upgrade" The threatened promised upgrade to the Echo comments system has arrived. I realize that some of you didn'...

Mrs. Palin on Tea Parties: So, we just finished saying that one of the most important contributions Mrs. Palin might have to the Tea Party m...